"I'm sorry, Mr. Jackson. Perhaps I wasn't thinking right. I just thought that..." She didn't know what to say. She just felt as though she were in a fantasy.

"There's no need to apologize. I should be the one doing that instead," Christopher said with a sigh. "I thought there was something between us, but I might have made a mistake. I was a fool." "No," Sydney exclaimed.

A glint flashed past the depths of Christopher's eyes, but a look of despondence overtook him. "No? Do you mean that we..."

Sydney spoke too soon, realizing that she might have fallen into his trap. He was a scheming man, after all.

"Mr. Jackson, I meant that it's very normal for people to overthink things. It has nothing to do with you being foolish."

Her instincts warned her against getting too close to this man.

"Mr. Jackson, I have something to attend to and need to go. See you."

Sydney then turned to leave.

"Is that goodbye?" Christopher asked, looking at her retreating figure. "Or do you really mean that we will see each other again?"

Sydney stopped in her tracks, unsure of what to say in response to him.

relationship with my

smile. "But that's not what

as she turned around. "Did you check

relationship with your husband doesn't seem as good as you put it to be. He was unfaithful to you in the past, didn't he?" Pain seared

the private room. Her hastily retreating figure made Christopher smile a deep,

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all the way

home to make it more convenient for her to take care of

of where she was and always asking to go home.

getting out of

in, she could hear

trying to do? Let me go!

good state? I'm still fit and strong! Don't treat me as though I'm made of paper. I need to find Rose." "Grandma," Theodore said, "Rose is very busy right now with her studies. She doesn't have the time to come visit you." "How could that be? Can't she

best to persuade Rebecca. However, she refused to listen to themand continued insisting on

then, Sydney walked

past Rebecca's eyes when Sydney appeared. "Who

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